No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!

One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.

You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that it is through strength, through the fact that people who know what people need are working to make this country a better place for all people, that we will help the world to accept our leadership and understand that, under our form of government and through our way of life, we have something to offer them.

Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.